Items Tagged with 'USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture'

Every summer, the next generation of staffers, analysts, lobbyists and communications specialists comes to D.C. This is the second part of two-part series on the interns in congressional offices and farm-related organizations in Washington this summer.

Modernizing wheat breeding to prepare the major food crop for changing climate conditions is the goal of a new five-year $15 million national research project.

Breeding Insight, a USDA project that provides resources to specialty crop breeding programs, and VitisGen2, a multi-institute research project, have partnered together to fund an effort to map the genomes of two grapevine germplasm collections.